Stance-taking, the public act of positioning oneself toward objects, people or states affairs, has been studied in many fields research. Recently, its multimodal realization interaction received increasing attention. The current contribution aims to take stock research on stance-taking so far, and present possible avenues for future We systematically gathered appraised 76 articles that investig...

A serious game for learning the social skills required for effective police interviewing is a challenging idea. Building artificial conversational characters that play the role of a suspect in a police interrogation game requires computational models of police interviews as well as of the internal psychological mechanisms that determine the behaviour of suspects in this special type of dialogue...

Stance-taking, the expression of opinions or attitudes, informs the process of negotiation, argumentation, and decisionmaking. While receiving significant attention in text materials in work on the related areas of subjectivity and sentiment analysis, the expression of stance in speech remains less explored. Prior analysis of the acoustics of stance-expression in conversational speech has ident...

In the current revival of Gumperz’ notion verbal repertoire, which today is rather termed as communicative or semiotic some scholars tend to locate repertoires with individual speakers whereas others see them primarily emerging from particular spatial arrangements. What often underestimated in both approaches importance bodily and emotionally lived experience interaction. This experience, howev...

Abstract This article analyzes the sociolinguistic construction of two gendered figures in multilingual performances, namely a category young Mongol wives rural societies who challenge patriarchal social order, and group urban men whose dream is to be rich indulge themselves luxury. By drawing on analytical framework stance stylization, study how performers’ multivalent stance-taking towards co...